Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 50, Number 217, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 2 November 1948 — Page 1

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Achievement Day Winners Named A capacity crowd attended the Annual County 4-H Achievement program held Monday evening November 1, in the Sullivan High School Auditorium. John An drews, Cass Township Boys' 4-H Club leader, acted as master of ceremonies. ' Achievement awards, medals end trips were presented to the following county 4-H Club boys and girls: Baking Set Doris Ruth Lath rop, Curry Township, given by General Foods Corporation Foley Mixing Forks and Flour Sifters Margaret Nash, Gill Township, and Sharon Reid, Ham ilton Township, given by Foley Food Mills. Food Preservation Medal of Honor Janet Bedwell, Jefferson Township, and Normalee Thomson, Hamilton Township. Foley Food Mills Mary Helen Meurer and Marleen Olson, both Cass Township. Foley Food Choppers Martha Whalen, Fairbanks Township, and Wynona Kennedy, Cass Town ship. Carrolton Mixing Spoon Pansy Ruth Chambers, Fairbanks Twp. Clothing Medal of Honor Jac queline Crew, Fairbanks Town ship. L. H. Bailey Garden Institute Garden Medals, presented to the five high garden project members, according to County Fair Ribbon Award Dale Phillips, Turman Township; M)irk Riggs, Turman Township; Commodore Smith, Jr., Curry Township; James Wiseman, Cass Township, and Ruth Tarwater, Hamilton Township. Dairy Production Achievement Medals, awarded by Kraft Foods Company, and a Fountain Pen and Pencil Set given by the local plant Marcus Petty, Fairbanks Township. ' Show Halter to Best Dairy Siiowman at County Fair Frances Ferree,. Turman Township. v The Wayne Huff Livestock Cane Award was given to Bob-. Towns-; ley, Jefferson .Township. This award was based on best hog showman at the County 4-H Club Fair in August. Harold Boone of Boone's Har - ness Shop, gave a Show Halter for the best beef showman at the county 4-H Club Fair. Livestock Medal Awards, given by Producers' Commission Assoc iation Beef, Zoe Coulson, Hamilton Township; Sheep, Shan Medsker, Turman Township, and Merrill Templeton, Hamilton Township; and Don Hobbs, Gill Townshio, Swine. Over-all Meat Animal Award, presented by the Thos. L. Wilson Packing Company Bob Townsley, Jefferson Township. Completion Pins by number years 4-H Club work completed Awarded to 4-H Club members by the Sullivan County Farm Bureau. Books entitled "I Dare You," given by the Danforth Foundation to Monte Riggs, Turman Township, and Pansy Ruth Chambers, Fairbanks Township. Better Farmland Homes Methods Medal Paul McCammon, Gill Township. Poultry Achievement Medals Bob Townsley and Charles Johanningsmeier, both Jefferson Township; Kenneth Borders and Mhrk Riggs, both. Turman Township; and Richard' Wright, Fairbanks Township. A new award, the John F. Allan Swine Trophy, given by John (Continued on Page 4. Col 5t Alumbaunh Wins Fishing Contest Lee Alnmbqugh, rt Sullivan, won the fishing contest soonsored by Brown and Co. with a peven pound two ounce bie month black bass. He caught the fish in one of the mine pits in the county. Alumbaugh used a 12 poud test nylon line to make his catch. He won a South Bend fly rod for his winning catch. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS Mr. and Mrs. George Ringer of Sullivan, R. 3, are the parents of a son, Gregory Lamar, born Novemober 1st at the Mary Sherman Hspital. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Siscoe of Merom, R. 1, announce the arrival of ap daughter, Mary Magdaline, b.orn November 2nd at the Mary Sherman Hospital.

TIMES TO COVER ELECTION RETURNS The Daily Times will receive accurate up-to-the-minute returns from all over the nation on election 'night. The United Press full-leasel wire will run from 5 p. m. Tuesday until the last returns are in so that The Times can inform local residents of the way the elections are going. In addition The Times will carry a complete coverage of the election results in Wednesday's paper.

Armistice Day Speaker To Be From Indiana U. The principal .speaker for the Armistice Day program here will be from Indiana University, the Rev. Thomas Jennings, gen eral chairman for the Armistice Day program, has announced. The plans call for one of the biggest Armistice Day program? of recent years here. It is planned to have the fifty-five piece Sullivan High School band lead the parade which wil! feature the observance. In addition, there will be drum and bugle corps to provide more music. Most of the veterans organiza tions in the county will be in the line of march, with American Le?ion posts, Veteran? of Foreign Wars, and Disabled American Veterans all taking part. It is planned, also to have Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and school children in the parade. County Job-Seekers Drop In October Unemployment in the Terre Haute office area of the Indiana State Employment Service appeared to level off during October.', The total of 3,726 job seekers actively registered at the end of October was only 55 greater than that of a month ago, reports Joe H. Petty, local office 'manager. Nearly three-fourths of - these workers were male. Registrations declined in Clay, Vermillion, Sullivan, Parke, and Putnam Counties . The em ergency curtailment during most of October of itinerant contact with these counties by the Em ployment Service, may have been a factor . Despite the adequate supply of male workers in most fields there are noticeable shortages in specific occupations , especial ly in some jobs where women are preferred. The long-time scarcity of experienced stenographers , for example , is becoming so acute that some employers are indicating actual immediate danger of roduced operational efficiency and resultant financial loss . Demand for competent waitresses and full-time household employees brisk . Employers are anxious that women witth such experience make their availability known at once . Seventh District Leqion Meeting The Seventh District tion of the American ConvenLegion will be held at Princeton November 6th and 7th at the beautiful Legion Home. Saturday night a dance will be given for all Legionnaires and guests. Sunday morning at 10:00 A . M . a business session will be held by both the Legion and the Auxiliary. Following the dinner a joint meeting will be held at 1:30 P. M. and a good program has been arranged. Seventh District Commander Earl Ellis urges all members of the American Legion to turn out for this occasion and see what the American Legion is doing. Girl Scouts Plan Carnival Thursday "Carnival Capers," the yearly bazaar of the local Girl Scouts will be held Thursday night at the Community Gym. Each troop will have its own booth with their handiwork to display. Also, the scouts will make cookies, cakes, etc., to capture one's eye These articles will be sold as a cart of the "Capers." The high school band will furnish music for the event. Watch The Times for further plans for Carnival Capers.

Begin Laying Water Line To Shefburn A mechanical ditcher yesterday began the task of digging

the ditch for laying the water pipe line between Shelburn and Sullivan to supply the Curry Township town with an aequate water supply. William Flick, clerk of the Shelburn town board, stated that the tentative date for service on same had hwn spt fnr Thanksgiving. Weather condi - tions Dermittine-. ' the wnrk nf InviniT tho nino chmtM V,. SAS, 1VW.U VVIIJpleted in two weeks. However, installation of a new pump in the ShPlhnm nnmnhnnsn win k0; nnrv fcofnm ,. be turned on. After having struggled with umerous methods of supplying their water consumers, the Shel burn town board finally decided to connect wim tne local sys tem whose water supply is drawn from the Wabash River. By the efforts of the Shelburn town officials a continual supply of water can now be afforded Farmersburg and Hvmera should they like their neighbors decide to lay a pipeline to the Shel burn main. Hews Stand Sold To Kermit Arnold The sale of the News Stand to Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Arnold has been announced by Mrs. E. M. Boyle. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold took over management of the News Stand on Monday. E. M. Boyle started the News Stand here in 1931 in the lobby of the Sherman Theatre, and it was located there until two years ago when it was moved to South Court Street, and then last Spring it was moved to its present location on the west side of the square. ; Mr. Boyle ran the News Stand until his death in 1934, and after that Miss Kathryn Boyle and Daniel, Boyle managed it for four years. After Miss Boyle's marriage to Bob Kerr. Herr managed the place until he joined the circulation department of The Indianapolis Star. Mrs. Herr has managed the business since that time. Mrs. Arnold is the daughter of Ed Billman and is the for mer Miss Frances Billman. New Strawberry Crop Is Reported This .has truly been a wonderful Fall. Many ordinary onecrop products of Mother Nature have demanded to make a second showing. So it has .been with a patch of strawberry plants at the home of Charles A. Meier on Sullivan rural route five. Mr. Meier presented a number of those luscious red berries at the Times office the other day as proof that several plants in his patch of from 4000 to 5000 plants produced a second harvest. These plants, he says, are not everbearing. HOSPITAL NOTES Admitted Oct. 31: Mrs. Doro thy Turman of Dugger. Admitted Nov. 1: Mrs. Mary Ralph State Hiatt of New Lebanon; Johnson of 311 South Street. Dismissed Oct. 30: Joe Hall of Dugger; Mrs. Chloe Stevenson of Shelburn; John J.'wes of Shelburn; Mrs. Bessie White of Paxton. Dismissed Oct. 31: Mrs. Christine Bewell of South Section Street; Mrs. Martha McCammor and son of Paxton. R. 1, Ace Pittman of Farmersburg, R. 1. Dismissed Oct. 1: Mrs. Verna Hunter of West Donaldson Street; Warren Gummere of Shelburn; Mrs. Phyllis Chowning and son of Farmersburg. PROCLAMATION The body of 1st Lt. Orville Dilley will arrive in Sullivan today at 4:45 p.m. Funeral services for this war hero will be held at the Gospel. Mission Church, East Jackson Street, Sullivan at 2 p.m. Sunday. It is our request that all business houses display their flags at half-staff from the time the remains of the war hero arrive this afternoon at 4:43 p.m. until 4 p.m. Sunday. Mayor Guy Biddle

First Returns: Dewey Leads In East Count, Truman Wins North Carolina Votes

By Stan Calderwood United Press Staff Correspondent HART'S LOCATION, N. H., Nov. 2. (UP) By a flickering kerosene lamp, 10 registered voters in this White Mountains settlement marked their ballots at dawn today then reported the nation's first Presidential elec tion returns. The vote was: President Harry S. Truman 1. Gov. Thc'mas E. Dewey 11. Two absentee ballots accounted for the total of 12 votes. In 1944 the vote was: Roosevelt ,0 - uewev 7 n 1940 it was: Roosevelt 5, iWillkie 3. While most Americans still were, asleep, the mountain folk at Hart's Location gathered around 'the old-fashioned oval room table at tne nome oi mr. and Mrs. Joseph Burke. It was 7 a. m. when Town Clerk Douglas Macomber opened a cardboard box from the Secretary of State's office at Concord and took out the ballots. He passed them around to the 10 voters crowded ir. the small room. The polls were opened at 7 a. m. and the voting for President was completed six minutes later. At 7:30 a. m. all ballots had been marked in their entirety and the vote was tabulated. John P. McCann, a railroad section foreman, was absent. He said he wouldn't vote "and get all that publicity." The two absentee ballots were laid aside and the blank ones passed out. WAYNESVILLE, N. C, Nov. 2. (UP) Cataloochee Precinct of Haywood County, N. C, voted at dawn today and gave its seven ballots to President Truman. The tiny community high in the Blue Ridge Mountains voted straight Democratic in all races. In 1944 Cataloochee gave eight votes to President Roosevelt and two to Thomas E. Dewey. Commissioners Meet Monday In Court Hous The Sullivan County Commissioners met in regular session Monday November 1 with all members present . The Board examined and approved the specifications for classes 1, 2 3, , 4 and 5 County printing and auditor ordered to advertise for bi therefor on December 6, 1948 at 10:00 A .M. , Hubert Sevier , County Auditor appeared as heretofore ordered and reported advertising . and notice of sale of certain mineral lands in Jackson township and submitted proof of posting together with publisher's certificate County Auditor reported sale of N. W. 2 of S. E. 2 in Sec. 25 Township 9 N R 8 W, 40 acres as ordered on September 6, 1948 and sale thereof on October 11, 1948. Commissioners now execute mineral deed for such land to James R. Cox and Ethel Cox.-. Petition filed by Hays and Hays, attorneys, for Sherwood-Temple-ton Coal Company to temporarily close certain highways in County. Considered and hearing thereon continued until December 6, 1948. The bid of MacAllister Machinery Co., Inc. for furnishing to County of Model V. A. I. Industrial tractor being the best and lpwest bid received, therefore, same is accepted and contract entered into accordingly. County . Auditor ordered to call meeting of County Council to be held December 13th, 1948 for purpose of considering additional appropriations, existing as emergencies for year ending December 31, 1948, after approval of additional requests by board. Fallis" E. Ward filed application for portion of County insurance business. Applicant given consideration for portion of such business. Lloyd Motor Sales having delivered three trucks for County Highway Dept. to County and same having been accepted check of such Lloyd Motor Sales is here by released and returned. The Board approved boiler and machinery policy No. (93) 104181 issued by Maryland .Casualty Copany on boiler in court house.

oosier Voters

Set New Vote Record INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 2. (UP) Scattered reports of "unusually heavy" voting came from over Indiana today as Hoosiers flocked to the polls in what may turn out to be record numbers. It was general election day. Some 25,000 workers opened for business promptly at 6 a.m. the voting booths in 4,056 precincts A few hours later, election workers in Indianapolis called for more volunteer helpers. The turni out was larger than they expect ed.In other sectors of Indiana the volume of early voting ranged from "good" to "heavy" and "un usually heavy." Voting Gcod. Harrison County officials re ported at Corydon that the ballot ing was good. Farther north, at Greencastle, early indications were for a heavy vote. At Indianapolis, an auxiliary voting machine was opened in one ward to accommodate a double line of voters. Twelve hours later, at 6 p.m., the polls will be closed and the haggard workers will begin the ordeal of counting ballots for President, for Governor, for Congress, and for a wide variety of secondary state and county offices. . Amid predictions of cloudy and rainy weather over most of the state throughout the day, political party workers by the thousands predde'd the less enthusiastic Hoosiers of voting age to get them to the polls. A majority of registered voters, however, was exepcted to make a bee-line for the nearest ballot box on their own initiative. ; May Be Reeord. i The turnout was expected to range somewhere between 1,500,000 and 2,000,000. The estimates varied. However7 with Indiana's nnnnlnHnn of an oil tima Vii rtY there was a good chance the vote for President would exceed the record 1,780,000 that turned out to settle the Roosevelt-Willkie race in 1940. i Confidence by candidates and leaders of both parties reached a new high as the trek to the polls began. Only six hours before the polls opened, the Democratic state organization still was bombarding the public with campaign oratory on a one-hour state radio network program that ended at midnight with mos state ticket candidates participating. Republicans, just as confident, closed out their vote appeal Saturday night with a torchlight parade and rally at Warsaw, home town of Hobart Creighton, the GOP nominee for governor. Schricker Ahead. Straw polls taken by newspapers on a purely local or a statewide basis during the last hectic weeks of the campaign gave each major party a basis for confidence. The polls generally showed Governor Dewey comfortably leading President Truman for Indiana's 13 'electoral votes. They also generally showed Creighton trailing his white-hatted Democratic, rival, former Gov. Henry F. Schricker. inese polls set the stage for what could turn out to be a carbon copy of the 1940 general election. Then, Schricker won by a bare majority to become the only Democratic elective official in the Statehouse. At the same time, Hoosier Native Son Wendell Willkie defeated President Roosevelt and swept the rest of the GOP state ticket into office and control of the state legislature. FILE COMPLAINTS ON ACCOUNT C. R. Lloyd and L. J. Lloyd, doing business as the Citizens Garage, have ' filed five complaints on account in the Sullivan Circuit Court. In five sep arate actions, they have filed against John Owens, Lucian Hancock, Charles Maynard Wayne Arnett, and George Wallisa. ROTARY ENTERTAINS ROTARY ANN The Sullvan Rotary Club entertained the Rotarv Anns Mondy night at the Methodist Church Annex. Dr. C. E. Fisher was in charge of the program.

Voting Heavy' As Americans, fip To Polls -To Choose Next President; Deivey is Favored

Lt. 0. L Dilley Funeral To Be Held Sunday Funeral services for First Lieut. Orville L. Dilley will be held Sunday' afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Gospel Mission Church. The remains of Lieut. Dilley. will arrive in Sullivan at 4:45 o'clock this afternoon and will be taken to the Railsback Funeral Home. Lieut. Dilley entered the United States Army in 1926 at the age of 16 years, and served for 18 yearsi He received his training at Fort Benning, Ga. He is survived by two daughters, Shirley and Judith Dilley; the father, Rev. Emory Dilley of Paxton; the step-mother, and one brother, Arthur Dilley of New York. The Rev. Thomas Jennings will officiate and burial will be in the Webb Cemet.erv. A military burial will be held. Many Votes Cast In City Before Noon Indications are that a near record number of voters will cast their ballots in this year's gen eral election. Already the num ber of votes cast is ahead of the number cast in the last Presidential election in 1944. At that time, a total of persons had voted in the city precincts by naon, year, at noon, a total of 1,182 four This 1,347 persons had voted. This is how the vote has lined up in the four precincts. In precinct 1, 1948255, in 1944 261, a decrease; in precinct 2, 1948405, in 1944 342, a big increase; in precinct 3, in 1948 377, in 194431', a big increase, and in precinct 4, in 1948 330, in 1944 262, an increase. The election commissioners who will serve tonight include Joe Schroeder and Manford Church, Republicans, and Leonard Tarwater and Herbert Watson, Democrats. Released on Bail FORMER movie actress Madge Meredith of Iowa Falls, Iowa, smiles as she prepares to leave a Los Angeles jail where she's been locked up for eleven months. She was released on $15,000 bail pending an appeal. The 26-year-old beauty was convicted on December 11, 1947, of kidnaping and assaulting her former manger. (International Soimdphoto)

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By Lyle C. Wilson United Press Staff Correspondent The President-makers American voters turned out early and in large numbers today to decide who shall sit in the White House during the next four years. By the hundreds cf thousands, they came out to vote in weather ranging from sunny to heavy rain. The early outpouring indicated that an estimated 50,000,000 will have cast Presidential ballots before this day of decision ends. They are choosing between President Truman, the Democratic" standard-bearer whom fate thrust into the White Hcuse 43 months ago, and Republican Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, who is getting his second 'shot at the Presidency. Nine others are seeking the Presidency, but the real contest is between these two men.

Auto, Plane Crashes Kill Seven Monday INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 2 (UP) State Police said today that seven persons were killed in auto and airplane accidents in Indiana during a one-day period. ' Three men were killed in a train-auto crash near Speeds (Clark County), three in Northern Indiana plane accidents and one when thrown from a car. All the accidents occurred yesterday. ' " Thde victims .of the train-car accident were Orville S. Hardin, age 19, Homer Ward, age 21. both of ' Louisville, Ky., and Kenneth N. Manning, age 25, Charlestown. They were killed when a Pennsylvania Railroad train struck their car at a crossing near .U. S. 31,. ..Speeds. . David Hooley, age 30, Fort Wayne, died of a fractured skull shortly after he attempted to parachute from a plane piloted' by Charles Sanders, also of Fort Wayne,. Authorities said Hooley was injured when his chute fouled as he jumped and he struck the side of the plane. Then the ' chute carried tiim to the ground. Two brothers-in-law, Rex Brooks, age 24, Angola, and William Faganel, age 24, Elmhurst, 111., were killed when their rented private . plane crashed northeast of Waterloo in Dekalb County. a Hiram Isaom, age 23, Con; nersville. died last night of in juries sustained when he was thrown from a car driven by Frank Day, Glenwood, west of Liberty yesterday. Six . other passengers were injured slightly when the car went out of control on U. S. 44. ' Today's Markets INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 2. (UP) Hogs 7,000; active, 25c to 50c higher; good and choice 180-270 lbs. barrows and gilts $24.50 $25.00, largely $24.75 and up, top $25.00; scattered lots 300 lbs. and above bid down to $24.00 $24.25; 160-180 lbs., $24.25 $24.75; 100160 lbs., $20.00 $23.50, few $24.00; sows 50c to $1.00 higher, bulk good and choice $21.00 $22.50, top $23.00, extreme heavies $20.50. Cattle 1,700, calves 300; moderately active on steers and yearlings, generally higher asking prices slowing down trade; scat-' tered sales strong to 25c higher: two loads low to average choice 1150 lbs. steers $35.50; two load? high good around 1050 lbs. and load around 1150 lb. steers $34.00 bulk good short fed steers $28.0C $31.00; load good mixed steers and heifers $33.50; couple loads mostly good 880 lb. heifers $30.00bulk small lots medium to good yearlings $25.00 $28.00; cows active, strong to 25c higher, good beef cows largely $19.50 $20.00, odd head $21.00; vealers moderately active, steady, good and choice $30.00 $32.50. Sheep 1,500; fat lambs fairly active, fully steady, good and choice mainly $24.50 $25.00, latter price paid freely, medium and good $22.00$ $24.00; three loads mostly good 89 to 97 lb. fed Texas yearlings, mostly No. 1 pelts, steady at $21.50; slaughter ewes firm, good and choice $7.00 $9.00.

The American voters are passing judgment, too, on the Congress which Mr. Truman repeatedly has denounced.

Early reports showed "heavy" to "very heavy" voting in Coolc County (Chicago), Cleveland, Philadelphia, Detroit, Columbus, O., Des Moines, in Connecticut, and in Syracuse, Albany and Binghamton, N. Y. In New York City, where an estimated 3,000,000 persons will vote during the day, voting was unusually light in the morning hours. The weather there was partly cloudy early but the sun broke through about mid-morning. Voting also was light in industrial Buffalo, N. Y., and the Atlanta, Ga area. , Polls began to open at dawn on the Atlantic coast and followed the sunrise westward. Some New England villages counted their votes and reported them in time for breakfast hour radio programs. First major poll closing will be at 3 p.m. CST in eastern Kentucky. The last ballots will be .cast in Washington State in the minutes before 10 p.m. CST. "Soon after that hour . tonight press associations and newspapers will have tabulated approximately 8,000,000 votes representing every state in the union. Unless the election is very close the trend will have been established by midnight. To win the White House, the polls and surveys tap Republican Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, 46 years old and the gangbusting boy-wonder of the midthirties. If he wins, he still will know he has been in a fight. President Harry S. Truman was a slow starter with the Democratic campaign. But he finished fast and tough. He was slugging his opponent even in a . final speech last night when it is more usual for the top .candidates to speak softly and urge that all eligibles go to the polls. Dewey maintained that tradition. All the principal Presidential candidates and their running mates were on the air last night, including two who are in the contest for a variety of reasons but mostly to keep Mr. Truman out of the White House. They are Henry A. Wallace, the Communist-sparked candidate of the Progressive party, and J. Strom Thurmond,, the State's Rights candidate who leads the Southern rebellion against Mr. Truman'on the issue of civil rights. Mr. Truman fired Wallace out of the cabinet two years ago for opposing our policy of firmness toward Russia. Terre Haufe Blast ; Causes Big Damage TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Nov. 2 (UP) An explosion and fire 3t the Merchants Carbonic Corp Here last night cost an e?timatet' damage upward of $50,000, Plant Manager Martin Burns said today. The plant (located at 1st and Hulman Streets) is a branch of the Merchants Distilling Corp. Burns said that most of the loss was in new equipment, only recently installed in the frame and sheet-iron building. The explosion and fire was believed to have centered ar.ound a dryer used in processing carbon dioxide. Escaping ammonia gas hampered firemen from six companies. No one was injured. Only a watchman was on duty at the time of the blast, and he escaped unharmed. .